ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,682, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd (Port Melbourne, Australia).
"Method and system for generating a depth map" was invented by Komal Kainth (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Joel David Gibson (Colorado Springs, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating a depth map corresponding to a frame of a sequence of frames in a video clip is disclosed. This can involve generating a single image depth map for each of a plurality of frames, scaling the single image depth maps, and processing a time sequence of scaled single image depth maps to generate said depth map corresponding to the fr...